Sentences with word «spared»

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

Halliburton, an oil services provider, wasn't spared from the fallout of cheap oil.

According to one of Murdoch's chief lieutenants of his China project, Bruce Dover, who wrote a hilarious book, Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures: How the World's Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife, Murdoch spared no effort to win the goodwill of senior Chinese officials.

«I'm glad to see Canada and Mexico [were] spared in the latest tariff initiatives,» said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group, in a note.

«Riadh Ben Aïssa spared no effort to protect the interests of the company, successfully,» it stated.

Unless I live in a vacuum of small, urban misfortunes that happen only to me so that the rest of the population may be spared, I can safely assume that most of you will know what it's like to stumble into the kitchen in the morning only to find out that you're out of coffee.

Coutinho showed the footage to the blogger, and spared the Rogers Centre some potentially embarrassing news coverage.

Rick Snyder, the outgoing Republican governor of Michigan, added his voice last month to those calling for NAFTA to be spared: «We wouldn't want to see NAFTA collapse or go away.»

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

The Gamble When Coleman Natural Meats Inc. decided to expand from a family business into a national brand, it spared no expense on advertising, publicized itself tirelessly, and launched an intense sale campaign focused on one target market.

Trump said Monday that Canada and Mexico might be spared from his plans for a 25 per cent tariff on steel imports and 10 per cent tariff on aluminum imports if they agree to better terms for the U.S. in talks aimed at revising the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Our patchwork mix of government -, employer - and individually funded retirement savings has spared us the kind of systemic breakdown seen from Ireland to Greece.

But up to 200 U.S. stores could be spared, according to CNBC: the news outlet has reported that Toys «R» Us is exploring a deal to sell its healthier Canadian business, plus its 200 best U.S. stores to a buyer, with the new entity run from Canada.

Not even pizza is spared a coat of sodium.

I suspect a more conciliatory approach might have spared him a decade lost to endless legal proceedings and prison.

Canadian oil companies rightly should have been spared from some of that carnage.

There was some good news the next day, though, as it wrote «although we have not been allowed on the property yet, Ken and Arnulfo and I were able to look from afar and we * believe * that our vines may have been spared.

«No pockets spared, I fear.»

We can't promise that you'll be spared the nocturnal tossing and turning over payroll or the bankers» breakfasts, but our findings prove one thing clearly: You can still make it big.

While the fire raged for days and consumed nearly 80,000 acres of land and destroyed more than 1,900 structures, including 66 commercial businesses in the area, Smith's three - person practice, Middletown Animal Hospital, was spared.

With this stroke, the company spared itself a host of uncertain receivables and avoided the need to establish an extensive and costly distribution network.

His action spared much of the harm that some countries still face as result of the devastating effects of lead on human health.

TORONTO, April 17 - Canada said on Tuesday it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to access supplies of Mylan N.V.» s EpiPen emergency allergy antidote amid a growing shortage that has spared the United States.

That said, Iceland's remoteness, its fishing - and tourism - based economy, and its independence from the EU have spared the country from immigration and globalization pressures and allowed the Pirate liberal agenda to stay liberal, largely free from the nativist tones that are increasingly dominating protest movements in Europe and the U.S..

They've clearly spared no expense, with commercials during every other break and appearances from some of America's most beloved characters — Dorothy and the Wicked Witch take a selfie, the Joker hands Batman a balloon animal, Super Mario offers a flower to the villainous Bowser, etc..

TORONTO, April 17 (Reuters)- Canada said on Tuesday it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to access supplies of Mylan N.V.'s EpiPen emergency allergy antidote amid a global shortage that has spared the United States.

The White House in March spared South Korea from the duties after Seoul accepted a quota of 70 % of the average of its steel exports to the U.S. between 2015 and 2017.

For a long time, electric car buyers were spared the 180 percent import tax that Denmark applies to vehicles fueled by an internal combustion engine.

The bond market was not spared problems, either.

The fire that raged during the bombing made superheated air rise with such force that it created a vacuum on the ground, ripping trees out of the ground, sucking people into the fires, and suffocating those spared the flames.

Only a few filing cabinets were spared.

«The US spared no effort in negotiating and attempting to implement an arrangement with Russia aimed at reducing the violence, providing unhindered humanitarian access, and degrading terrorist organizations operating in Syria.

The ballplayer backed down and was spared from an expensive education in how to lose money.

For me, the benefits of having a nice set of knives with which to cook was less about the time and effort it spared me (which was noticeable), and more about how enjoyable cooking was when it felt like I wasn't fighting the food to get it made.

A unique confluence of events came together in the U.S. during 2008 — a once - in - a-lifetime event from which Canadians had the good fortune to be spared.

That hasn't spared us entirely from some false hopes and fruitless conversations, but it has helped us avoid a few.

But the threat of termination in the memo spared no one.

His preference to stay out of Uber's spotlight has spared him from public humiliation amid a year of bad press for the company.

After the fall of the Nazi Regime, Petain was spared the gallows because of his actions as «The Lion of Verdun» and hero of France.

The electrical industry has been spared having to find an extra $ 5 million a year to pay apprentices after Training and Workforce Development Minister Peter Collier rejected proposed subsidy cuts.

The U.S. Trade Representative said Mexico and Canada will be subject to the duties, despite previous reports that they may be spared.

If you're traveling for business on one of Emirates or Etihad's A380 planes and you have some points to spare, consider redeeming them for a first - class ticket so you can try out their showers.

April 24 (Reuters)- United Technologies Corp reported quarterly results that topped analysts» estimates on Tuesday and raised its full - year forecasts, citing higher demand for spare parts and services from airlines dealing with booming passenger travel.

Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high - powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko.

With a buffet ticket, you can try the dumplings, the salad, the spare ribs, brussels sprouts and the pasta — and that variety makes you feel good.

From the age that he could first make himself useful, Cornell says, he did odd jobs in his spare time: shoveling snow, mowing lawns, stacking bricks.

In his spare time during his degree, he wrote spec scripts as a hobby.

«I talked to him and asked him if he would give me some spare parts for something I was building called a frequency counter.

Sharing important and timely information in regular update sessions only makes sense if every participant consciously edits his input and if some of them - from time to time - are smart and courageous enough to zip it and spare us a useless report or a compulsory comment.

I double - majored in theater in college, so I was planning to take on this challenge through some method acting — but since Musk has been sleeping on the Tesla factory floor and skipping showers as of late, I decided to spare my co-workers.